High level of capture of coronary intervention and associated acute coronary syndromes in the all New Zealand acute coronary syndrome quality improvement cardiac registry and excellent agreement with national administrative datasets (ANZACS-QI 25)
Andrew J Kerr, Mildred Lee, Yannan Jiang, Corina Grey, Sue Wells, Michael Williams, Rod Jackson, Katrina Poppe, on behalf of the ANZACS-QI investigators
The All New Zealand Acute Coronary Syndrome Quality Improvement (ANZACS-QI) registry was designed to collect data on all patients undergoing heart procedures coronary angiograms and per-cutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in New Zealand, and all patients who had these procedures because they had a heart attack or episode of unstable angina (acute coronary syndromes). This study anonymously compares data recorded in the registry with that collected by the Ministry of Health (MOH) as a means of checking the accuracy of both datasets. Consistent with its aim, the ANZACS-QI registry captured almost all New Zealand public hospital coronary procedures in 2015, including those associated with heart attack and unstable angina admissions. The overall high level of agreement between the two datasets supports their use for future analyses, and specifically support the use of the MOH datasets for reporting of quality of care measures in heart attack and unstable angina patients not recorded in the ANZACS-QI registry.